Mobile GIS at Xcel Energy

1
Mobile GIS at Xcel Energy

• February 7, 2008
• Presented by
• Tony Rude

2
Xcel Energy Who are We?

• Fourth largest investor-owned combination
  electric and natural gas energy company in the
  U.S.
• Formed in the fall of 2000 through the merger of
  Northern States Power (MN/WI) and New Century
  Energies
• 3.3 million electric and 1.8 million gas
  customers
• Transmission lines - 78,637 conductor miles.
  17,432 line miles
• Distribution lines - 184,441 conductor miles
• Pipeline - 32,333 miles

3
Poor Mans Mobile Map

• Back office using AutoCAD or similar application,
  but NOT GEO-Referenced maps
• Can only display a single map at a time
• Can zoom in/out to see details
• Implement process for pushing out map updates
• Using for feeder maps in some locations

4
Better Mobile Mapping

• Back office using AutoCAD or similar application,
  but have GEO-Referenced maps
• Can display a seemless map but it may not be
  rubber sheeted and clean edged
• Not able to perform tracing or find attributes,
  but can still use GPS for displaying the proper
  map
• Implement process for pushing out map updates
• Build a Redline process so your crews and take
  ownership in the data and integrity

5
The Best Mobile Mapping

• Full back office GIS (like SmallWorld or ESRI)
• When replicating to the field you want lighter
  weight data
• Only port over what you need for viewing
• Put power in the hands of the crews
• Ability to run traces on the network, find
  facilities, click on attributes, highlight
  valves/switches, and position the maps to a GPS
  coordinate.
• Implement process for pushing out map updates
• Build a Redline process so your crews and take
  ownership in the data and integrity
• Link CRS customer system and OMS Outage
  Management to GIS

6
Link to Customer System

• Customers are tied to GIS lot centroid
• All customer records have lat/long coordinate
• All work orders generated use lat/long from the
  customer record without looking up coordinate for
  each order

7
Link to Outage Management System

• Leverage the electric paths created in GIS to
  predict a device that has failed
• Map dispatching allows a dispatcher to view
  orders and crews on the maps
• You can visibly track incidents as they move
  through your service territory
• Provides data integrity validation crew sees it
  all

8
Mobile Design the Next Level

• Allow Designers with the ability to create, and
  update designs in the field without a network
  connection.
• Eliminate dual entry by providing a
  synchronization process with Bentley Expert
  Designer and Ventyx PassPort.
• Leverage our existing implementations and
  infrastructure constructed for the Mobile Mapping
  and Expert Designer projects.
• Use the same process if using SmallWorld or
  AutoCAD.
• Use the same process for all job
  sizes/complexity.

9
(No Transcript)
10
Questions and Comments